TV star Carol Smillie to beome FIRST celebrity humanist celebrant

CAROL Smillie is to become the first celebrity name in Britain to to become a celebrant who can conduct humanist weddings, funerals and child-naming ceremonies. The former Changing Rooms presenter is expected to earn her stripes after having successfully officiated yesterday at her first non-religious funeral service in Glasgow.

For me, becoming a humanist celebrant is not necessarily about a big money-making adventure

Carol Smillie

Following many months of training she will soon be registered, under her married name of Carol Knight, to conduct hatches, matches and dispatches as a member of Humanist Society Scotland.

Carol said: “It is such an obvious fit for the skills that I have in speaking in public and writing scripts and having empathy with people.”

The role of humanist celebrant marks yet another change of direction for the versatile 56-year-old mother-of-three.

A former model turned TV presenter she quit showbusiness in 2012 to start her own business with the women’s underwear line Diary Doll, with partner and friend Annabel Croft, the former international tennis player.